Albums that molded you into the musician you are today?

[bpetersen]

I forgot Alice In Chains--Dirt

 

[neilli]

In terms of actual influence on how I play guitar (rather than albums that I love but really didn't actually influence me much), and cheating a bit by including a couple of live albums:

Iron Maiden - Live After Death, Somewhere in Time, Seventh Son
Metallica - Puppets, The Black Album
Anthrax - STD, ATL
Van Halen - VH1, 1984
Poison - Flesh and Blood
Ozzy - Bark at the Moon, Tribute

 

[Inca Roads]

 

[syncrodude007]

ahhh Led Zeppelin...
oh and Kenny Logins...

 

[zewango]

Kiss - Alive
Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
Aerosmith - Live Bootleg
Van Halen
Blizzard Of Ozz
Diary Of A Madman

 

[chunktone]

In chronological order,

Meet the Beatles
Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers
Deep Purple-Mad in Japan
Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Kiss-Alive
AC DC-Highway to Hell
Van Halen 1
Scorpions-Animal Magnetism
Ozzy Osbourne-first through Jake era
Black Sabbath-Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules
Metalica-Kill 'em All and Ride the Lightning
Iron Maiden-Killers through 7th Son
Queensryche-EP through Empire
Yngwie Malmsteen-Alcatraz through Trilogy
Vinnie Moore-Time Odessey
Al Di Meola-Tour De Force live and Passion Grace and Fire with
John Mclaughlin and Paco De Lucia
Dream Theater-Images and Words through Metropolis II
Racer X LIve Extreme Volume
Evergrey-all
Pagan's Mind-All
Jorn-The Duke

There's many more, but these are some highlights

 

[ampjunkie]

VH I and II
SRV I and II
AC/DC Back in Black
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic
The first Boston album is what made me want to play guitar, but I don't really play in their style

 

[nevusofota]

Queen- The Game
Quiet Riot- Metal Health
Ratt- Out of The Cellar
Van Halen- 1984
Poison- Look What the Cat Dragged In
Motley Crue- Shout At The Devil
Extreme- Extreme/Pornograffiti/IIISides
Steve Vai- Passion and Warfare
Dream Theater- Images and Words
Joe Satriani- The Extremist
Pantera- Far Beyond Driven
Foo Fighters- The Colour and the Shape

 

[EyesOfTheSouth]

ZZ Top - Fandango
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Trouble - Psalm 9
Judas Priest - everything up to Screaming For Vengeance
Black Sabbath - Vol 4
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
Riot - Fire Down Under
Accept - Restless and Wild

 

[shane159]

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Austin City Limits Live (not a CD, but that concert made me pick up a guitar and learn)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood / Couldn't Stand the Weather
Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
Alice in Chains - Dirt
STP - Core / Purple
King's X - Dogman
Chris Duarte - Texas Sugar Strat Magic
Foo Fighters - Colour and the Shape
Sevendust - Animosity
Joe Bonamassa - Ballad of John Henry / Dust Bowl / Driving Towards the Daylight

This is pretty much spot on for me, but I would add Black Sabbath Paranoid and Prince's Purple Rain

 

[sg guy]

ZZ Top - Fandango
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Trouble - Psalm 9
Judas Priest - everything up to Screaming For Vengeance
Black Sabbath - Vol 4
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
Riot - Fire Down Under
Accept - Restless and Wild

TROUBLE!!!....one of my favorite bands that not many new about,...never understood why they didn't make it.

 

[moronmountain]

Thanks for all the replies! In my list I put albums that got me into "music" and not just into my current style, but I love reading everyone's lists. You can tell more about where peeps come from in a sense.

 

[Racerxrated]

Ozzy-Diary
VH-up to Fair Warning
Priest-old school up to Turbo..The 'Ripper' gave me chills when I was 8..
Queensryche..up to Empire
Kings X-Gretchen and just about everything else..
Dokken-George was a beast..
AIC-Facelift and Dirt

I'm sure there's more...